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Special Update Program
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $1.04B |
| FY25 | $1.50B |
| FY26 | $1.18B |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $935.0M | $999.3M | $1.04B | ||
| Enacted | – | $996.5M | $1.04B | $1.50B | |
| Request | – | – | $1.04B | $1.27B | $1.18B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Description — Special Update Program
This program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.
Justification
Justification — Special Update Program
This program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other Procurement, Air Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $1.04B |
| Other Procurement, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $1.50B |
| Other Procurement, Air Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $1.18B |
| Other Procurement, Air Force | F | FY26 Total | $1.18B |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $1.04B | $1.50B | $1.18B | $1.18B |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Special Update Program. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
Every sentence below carries its citation — warehouse figures open the citation panel, news claims link the cached source.
Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1,938 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →
What it is
- Special Update Program (budget line 846510) is a U.S. Air Force procurement line funded in the Other Procurement, Air Force appropriation.
- The program is a classified effort: its published budget documentation states only that it is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.
- Because the program is reported through the Special Access Program channel, its detailed description and justification are withheld from the public budget exhibit and provided only in the classified annual report.
Why it matters
- The program's total funding is $1,178,397 thousand (about $1.18 billion) requested for FY 2026.
- In FY 2024 the program recorded actual spending of $1,042,833 thousand (about $1.04 billion), so the FY 2026 request is a modest increase over recent execution.
- The entire FY 2026 request is discretionary: the P-1 exhibit shows a $1,178,397 thousand discretionary request and no reconciliation (mandatory) request.
- The FY 2026 request of about $1,178.4 million is below the current-year level of about $1,503.3 million, so year-over-year the classified line steps down even as it stays above its FY 2024 execution.
Key players
- The program is run by the U.S. Air Force, with funding drawn from the Other Procurement, Air Force appropriation.
- No external contractors or partner organizations are named in the public exhibit, consistent with the program being reported under the Title 10 Section 119(a)(1) Special Access Program process.
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1092
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1059
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O1110
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
FY2026 Air Force Other Procurement · www.saffm.hq.af.mil
PDF page 831